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Mary Binda

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Mary Binda
NSA memberA.B.C.P.U.
1958 - 1959
Argentina
1961 - ????
 Media

Mary Binda was a Chilean Bahá’í who assisted with the development of the Bahá’í community of South America and served as a National Spiritual Assembly member.

Background[edit]

Binda was from Chile but moved to Bolivia where she became a Bahá’í in the 1940's. She pioneered to Caracas, Venezuela, in 1949 after consultations with the National Teaching Committee of South America and the Inter-America Committee.[1] She stayed in Lima, Peru, for several weeks while traveling from Bolivia to Venezuela assisting the South American Teaching Committee while in the city.[2] By October, 1949, she had settled in Caracas and that month she helped facilitate courses at a Bahá’í conference in Bogota, Colombia, held for the Bahá’ís of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.[3]

In 1950 Binda moved to Wilmette, Illinois, in the USA as she was appointed the secretary of the Inter-America Committee,[4] however later the same year she stood down from the position in order to pioneer to Guatemala.[5] In 1951 she was appointed to write the official report of the first Convention for the Bahá’ís of South America at which the National Spiritual Assembly of South America was established.[6] In 1952 she pioneered to Italy undertaking a travel teaching trip across South America before departing during which she visited Buenos Aires in Argentina, Montevideo in Uruguay, and Santo and Sao Paulo in Brazil.[7]

As of 1958 Binda had returned to Chile, settling in Santiago,[8] and she was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay that year serving one term.[9] That year she visited Asuncion to assist with teaching and was able to proclaim the Faith on two radio stations and meet with United Nations officials.[8] As of 1961 she had moved to Argentina and that year she was elected to the first independent National Spiritual Assembly of Argentina as recording secretary,.[10] but by 1964 she had returned to Chile where she pioneered to the Cardal Reservation.[11]

As of 1979 Binda had passed away.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 221, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 222, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1949). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 226, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 235, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1950). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 238, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 247, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1952). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 262, Pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 334, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 329, Pg(s) 20. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1961). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 366, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Baha'i News (1979). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 577, Pg(s) 5. View as PDF.
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